The Light Lives in You
The screen glows bright while the room stays dim, and you scroll past a version of yourself that feels like a stranger. That smile in the photo looks easy, unburdened, nothing like the face you see in the mirror right now.
It hurts to realize how much distance has grown between who you were and who you are becoming. But the light does not live in the picture—it lives in the one holding the phone.
You are not the image you lost; you are the presence that remains. The mask may have slipped, yet the eyes behind it are seeing clearly for the first time.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, 1 John 3:19-20
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